Parthia/Ta'regi was freaking out in the #Tavernn this morning while I was finishing up writing #TCotWS
She was having an anxiety attack that she'd disappear once I finished writing down her story.

She's still there...
She's calmed down a good bit.
I had to remind her I've only painted /one/ of her stories, and I would be dishonouring her if I only wrote about her trauma.
I want to celebrate the beauty of her and Pintac's love.
And I wouldn't let her fad away even if TCotWS was to be the only story I write down.

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The Cantata of the Wild Soul

11,177 words

I feel good and accomplished.

Now I can start on "A Wolf's Lullaby", the 'prequel' that is about the happy and wild romance of Parthia + Pintac before shit happened

#TaRegi #TCotWS #AWolfsLullaby.

#PennedPossibilities 276 — What is the most significant smell in your WIP?

There's an acrid smell that is significant.
The ritual that transformed Parthia produces an acrid scent.
The creature from the previous experiment smells of this constantly because it is a corruption/stagnation of nature, where as Parthia/Ta'regi became hyper-natural creature so she only briefly smelled of it /during/ the ritual.
She ends up using the smell to tack and run down the creature.

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#WordWeavers 24-04-06 Does your MC feel understood? Why/why not?

No-but.
MrThrace is the only person she's told her story to since the events.
Well he's tied up, so it's more like she's cathartically monologuing about what happened to her because she's utterly isolated, and who's better for a captive audience than the shady fucker that trafficked the people used as test subjects prior to her ordeal.
Literally the only other person in 2+ish yrs she's said more than a half a sentence to, is the person that she paid to make her ' tactical-onsie ' (my term not hers) & the variable form cloak.
At the time TCotWS starts she's freying at the edges from the lack of community and support network, something she even touches at in one of the intercuts of her speaking directly to Thrace.
So she doesn't feel understood, but she did unload some of the weight of what happened

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#WordWeavers 24-04-05 SC POV: Who is your favorite person to be around?

Pintac, "My life, my wife, Parthia. Without her, the sun is dim and nowhere can be called home. I wish everyone could find someone like her... Someone that makes waking up the most beautiful moment of your life because it's another day to share with them."

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#pennedpossibilities 270. Would your MC or SC consider themselves spiritual?

Starting to fall back asleep so this will be more brief than my usual info-dumps.
Yes. Parthia & Pintac are animists

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#WordWeavers #Writing 24-03-31 For a giveaway, what swag would you love to offer with your book?

This took me a long moment of thinking.
Like way way more than I think others probably had to do.
First thought was a limited run of a functional replica of Pintac's arrow & sickle brooch.
But more practical and just as heavy emotional weight would be a durable bookmark with the phonetic lyrics for Bayu-Bayushki-Bayu on one side and a translation on the other.
Less practical, two mini posters, one depicting Parthia & Pintac napping in their meadow,
the other depicting the somber moment when Parthia is looking at herself in a mirror post transformation, with the William Blake poem "The Tyger" written/integrated along one side, as there is a blink-and-you-miss-it reference to Blake's poem in that scene

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I snapped awake momentarily disoriented as to where I was.

The lessened light pouring through the windows told me I had been asleep an hour, maybe two.

My head pounded, and my eyes itched from the crying before I had passed out.

“Alrighty Par'. Let's avoid passing out in unsecure places in the future.”

I was half joking but it was still an important practice to mind when confronting future rocks in the river.

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The ship teetered atop the mountain for a second that felt like eternity

“Grab hold and make fast!” I bellowed to the crew on deck as we pitched forward and raced downward.

Another rose up in front like a beast and took a hard swipe at us.

Someone called out “Captain Parthia! We're going to lose the bowsprit!”

As we slid down that beastly wave I shouted to the helmsman “Hard to port! Turn to broad reach! We have to surf ahead of the crest!”

Everything slowed as the ship turned in the lull between waves, and caught the rising swell.

The crest of the wave broke in shades of silver and white as it curled like the unruly beard of a mad wizard roaring with maniacal laughter behind us...

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---The Cantata of the Wild Soul ( excerpt ) ---
I grabbed my head with both hands trying to make my mind stop spinning like a feather at the mercy of a storm’s winds.

The scream that erupted from me was a savage primal hymn of every emotion I was feeling.

My arm slammed repeatedly into the wall trying in vain to cast off the phantasmal grappler that came from within.

My Spring tears became a torrential Autumn downpour as I smashed anything my hands could grab.

I staggered backwards into a corner and slid down the wall hugging myself, while sobbing.

So much had happened, most of it in just the last few days, and I felt like a rope fraying at both ends.

When word came to us that Pintac’s parents had died in a wildfire, I was there to keep him buoyant and moored to the dock.
When mum passed in her sleep a few years back, Pin’ pulled me into dry dock and took care of me while I buried her and mourned…

But here I was now, alone adrift, mourning unmoored, rowing with the vaguest view of a point on the horizon.

I needed to pull myself together.
But everything was too fresh, too raw, and try as I might, the boat kept breaching through the top of the waves instead of cresting over them.
Each time taking a swig of water from the wave.
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